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Performance Recharge

The brain is only about 2% of your body weight, but it takes about 20% of your total energy.  Renewal time for our brains and bodies is a must.  Extraordinarily productive people consistently recharge with sleep and downtime in order to remain highly productive.

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Process Focused

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."                           -W. Edwards Deming

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Improve Your Interviewing Skills

Very few executives have been professionally trained in how to interview.  Poor interviewers talk so much themselves that they find out very little about the job candidate.  To avoid being fooled by "C" players who look and sound like "A" players, immerse yourself in interviewing strategy.

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Strategic Time Out

From time to time it's wise to ask clarifying questions like: Why are we doing this?  How does this contribute to our desired objective?  Does this have to be done now?  Is this a distraction from our higher priorities?  Should we be doing this at all?

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Culture

Think of your culture as your organization's operating system.

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Interview For Core Values

Instead of hiring based on experience, hire for things like integrity, honesty and loyalty.  To uncover these, ask behavioral questions during the interview.  You might ask a question with no right answer to see whether the candidate can admit when he doesn't know.

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Change Agents

Successful organizational change is an inside-out process of commitment, modeling, and reinforcement carried out by dedicated leaders.  When leaders bring their full  energy to work and honor those who do, others will fall in line and start to follow their lead.

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Leadership Is a Choice Not a Position

By one definition, leadership is a choice, not a position.  Anyone who is willing to involve others to make a change.  Anyone who wants to make things better and take actions required can be a leader.  Think Mother Teresa or Gandhi.

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Complexity

Welcome complexity, because that's where the best answers come from.

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What Strategy Is

Strategy is not just a plan, not just an idea; it is a way of life for a company.  Strategy doesn't just position a company in its external landscape; it defines what a company will be.  What kind of company is yours?

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